So we have to assume that the occasion for this poem is some kind of question posed by John Milton, Sr., a question like, "To what end am I supporting you, Son?

我们可以假定这个诗的起因是,老约翰弥尔顿问小弥尔顿，“我到底为什么要资助你，儿子？“

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This little bit of the Faerie Queene is important for Milton in all sorts of ways.

这一在《仙后》中的小细节对于弥尔顿,在很多方面都是十分重要的。

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In a little scene from the early English history that Milton had selected from his reading, you have an image of silencing, of a horrifying and unredeemable speechlessness that is so closely connected to virginity.

早期英国文学中的一个小场景,那是弥尔顿从他的阅读中选出的，你们，对于可怕的不可挽回的哑口无言有种寂静感,这与童贞紧密相连。

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There are nonetheless a few details from the classical underworld that he seems to have lifted more or less wholesale and one of them - I'm going to ask you to look at page 246 in the Hughes.

然而弥尔顿书中还是有一些描写传统地狱的小细节,他似乎多多少少大规模地盗用了那些细节,我想让你们看《力士参孙》一书的246页。

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One of these little details that Milton has lifted rather directly is that of the river Lethe, the river of oblivion that was believed to flow in the underworld.

其中弥尔顿直接盗用的一个小细节,是遗忘之河，即忘川,忘川被认为在地狱流淌。

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